I get so much conflicting information about China, some say it's a dictatorship, a creepy dystopian surveillance state. Other times I hear it's a lovely, friendly country with a great quality of life.
I admit, I'm a lazy :LIB: and I don't know much about China. So I have a few questions:
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Is China a democracy? I know it's single-party ruled, but can they choose their leaders within the communist party?
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What is the work culture like for the average person? Are people overworked and underpaid, like I've read in western media, or is that all projection?
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Is the average person happy? How are disadvantaged people treated?
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What's privacy like there? As bad as the west, better or worse?
It would be cool to get some answers from someone who has actually lived in China, if any of you have. I'm pretty sure we have a couple of Chinese users?
P.S. Pls don't gulag me for being taking so long to learn more about world politics I am terrible at being a leftist :anarcho-bottom: :left-unity-4:
This honestly sounds like such a huge change. At this point I’m so used to being surrounded by people who’s basic attitude is “shit’s bad and getting worse” myself included. And that stretches from my friend’s chud racist parents with a confederate flag outside their house to the left-lib world of academia to this site. The prevailing feeling is pessimism about the present and future
I know right? national morale in the USA is so low, people are literally hopeless. Hopeless people do crazy things, like shoot up a school, become a hard drug addict, join a right wing militia, kill themselves, post hate on the internet and just cause a lot of our societal problems you know? it all adds up to a overwhelming national feeling of despair, though people blame different things for the source. Capitalism is stripping away anything meaningful to people and the government does nothing to ease the pain this creates. this feeds back into itself, as people trust eachother less and less as society rots
like this is crazy for me you never see this in the US. everyone is concerned about themselves and steps all over eachother ruining the future as a whole. There are some things you can't buy with looted gold.
I watched New York flood and the Supreme court kill Roe v Wade. I'm glad to see some people in the world have hope for the future.
Yes, it was such a breath of fresh air for me.
One of the best and silly things about living in China is to see old people having fun at night, dancing in the saquares, and playing chess, cards or mahjong. It's just amazing, and it fills me with energy and joy. It makes big cities look like villages rather than souless concrete jungles.
https://youtu.be/cSZ2AKvF2Kk https://youtu.be/SU74qF2YvZ8